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As we all know, iMessage and SMS conversation threads can go for a long time and can encompass years of shared photos, locations, voice notes, and more. If you wanted to go back and look at it all, how would you do that?

On iOS, photos and videos are separated from the rest of your attachments, but otherwise, everything behaves in pretty much the same way. This is your guide to managing it all.

How to view and share your Messages in attachments on iPhone and iPad

How to view and share your Messages attachments on iPhone and iPadYou can look at a Messages conversation's attachments any time you want. You can even share them with other people in different apps.

1. Launch Messages on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap the conversation for which you would like to see the attachments.

3. Tap the Info button (looks like an 'i').

4. Scroll down and you'll find the Images and Attachments tabs. Images and videos will appear under Images, while voice messages and other attachments will appear under Attachments.
5. Tap a photo or video under Images to view it. Swipe left or right to go to the conversation's next attached image.

6. Tap an attachment under Attachments to view it. Swipe left or right to go to the conversation's next attachment.

7. Tap the list button in the bottom right corner when viewing a photo, video, or other attachment to see a list of your attachments.

8. Tap the Share button in the bottom left corner to share within an app with a share extension, or perform another action using an action extension.

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How to view and share your Messages in attachments on iPhone and iPad on iOS 12

iOS 12 has a notable tweak to the process of viewing your attachments, even though the process remains much the same.

1. Open Messages on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap the conversation for which you would like to see the attachments.

3. Tap the avatar or avatars at the top of the conversation screen.

4. Tap Info.
5. Tap Images to view photos and videos from the conversation or Attachments to see anything else.

6. Tap on the attachment, be it photo, video, or something else, to view it.

7. Tap on the list button in the bottom-right corner when viewing your attachment to see a list of all of your attachments.

8. Tap the Share button in the bottom-left corner to share your attachment in another app.

How to delete your Messages attachments on iPhone and iPad

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Getting rid of a photo or other attachment without getting rid of your entire thread is easy. This is how you do it.

1. Launch the Messages on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap the conversation for which you would like to see the attachments.

3. Scroll through your conversation until you find the photo, video, or attachment that you want to delete.

4. Tap and hold on the attachment.

5. Select More..

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6. With the bubble next to the attachment checked, tap the trash can button in the bottom left corner of the screen to delete the photo, video, or other attachment.

7. Tap Delete Message to delete the attachment.

How to change the expiration settings for audio messages on iPhone and iPad

You can choose whether or not you want the audio messages you receive to expire at all without having to tap 'Keep' every time you get one. Here's how.

1. Launch Settings on your iPhone or iPad.

2. Tap on Messages.

3. Tap on Expire under the Audio Messages and/or Video Messages section.

4. Choose either After 2 Minutes or Never.

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Update July 2018: Added instructions and screenshots for viewing attachments in iOS 12.

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If you use Outlook for email on your Mac, it deals with attachments in one of two ways. If you configure it using an IMAP server, attachments are stored on the server until you open them. If you use a POP 3 server, they will be downloaded with the message. Either way, attachments take up room on either your Mac or the email server — a problem if your account has limited storage. There are lots of reasons, then, why you may want to delete attachments. And several ways to do it. We’ll cover them here, starting with methods you can use without any additional tools. As you might expect, these take a bit more effort, and time, than the automated method we’ll show at the end. If you’d rather not spend the time, you can skip straight to the last one, which uses CleanMyMac X to speedily delete mail attachments and give Outlook a cleanup.

The slow, manual way to delete Outlook attachments

Locating attachments outside of Outlook is tricky, so the easiest method is to delete them from within the application. However, this is also the slowest method.

1. Launch Outlook.
2. Click on your inbox.
3. In the toolbar, click on the Filter Email tool and choose ‘has attachment.’
4. You should now only see in your inbox those messages that have attachments.
5. Start with the first message, click on it and then click on the arrow next to the attachment.
6. Choose ‘Remove’ then confirm by pressing “Delete” when the dialog box opens.
7. The attachment will now be deleted.
8. You can now go through the rest of the messages in your inbox one by one and repeat steps 5 and 6 to delete their attachments.
9. Once you’ve finished deleting attachments from messages in your inbox, you can repeat the process for messages in other folders.

The slightly quicker, but more complicated manual method

If you’re thinking that it would be much quicker just to locate attachments in the Finder and delete them all at once, you’d be right. However, that only works for attachments that have been downloaded. If you use IMAP, that means those that you’ve opened. If you use POP 3 it will be all attachments.

The problem with locating them in the Finder is that different versions of Outlook store them in different places. Add in to that the fact that you could be using one of several versions of macOS, it gets messy quickly. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways of identifying where the “Outlook Temp” folder that holds attachments in Office 2016 is located.

Here’s how to delete Outlook attachments for Outlook 2016:

1. In the Finder, click on the Go menu, choose Go to Folder, and type: ‘private/var/folders’ into the box, then hit Go.
2. Outlook attachments are stored in a folder called Outlook Temp, which is inside another folder called ‘com.microsoft.Outlook’. However, that folder is hidden inside other folders and where it is not obvious. You could go through each of the folders in ‘private/var/folders’ and dig into each of their sub-folders looking for ‘com.microsoft.Outlook.’ However, that could take quite a while, so step 3 has a shortcut.
3. In Outlook, locate a message with an attachment that is a Microsoft Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document (PDFs and images won’t work since they open in Preview). When you find one, open it.
4. Go to the File menu and choose Save As.
5. When the Save dialog opens, you should see ‘Outlook Temp’ as the default save location. Click on it to see the full path of the Outlook Temp folder.
6. Note down the path, paying attention to the folders between ‘folders’ and ‘com.microsoft.Outlook.’
7. Go back to the Finder window where you navigated to ‘private/var/folders’ and use the path you noted in step 6 to locate Outlook Temp.
8. Inside Outlook Temp, you’ll find all the attachments that have been downloaded to your Mac. You can now drag them to the Trash and empty it.

An alternative to steps 4 and 5, once you’ve opened the attachment, is to go to File menu in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and choose Properties. In the General tab, you will see the path to the Outlook Temp folder. You can note that down and use it in step 7.

How to delete Outlook attachments in older versions of Outlook

Prior to Outlook 2016, attachments were stored in your user Library folder. Here’s how to delete them.

1. Go to the Finder and choose the Go menu.
2. Select Go to Folder.
3. Type “~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook Temp”
4. That will take you directly to the folder where attachments are stored. You can now drag them to the Trash and empty it.

How to delete Outlook attachments quickly and easily

Each of the methods described above takes quite a bit of effort, and in case of the first one, a great deal of time, too. However, there is a much easier way. CleanMyMac X allows you to quickly and easily delete Outlook attachments at the press of a button. It does the hard work of scanning your Mac and finding the attachments, then allows you to review them so you can decide whether or not to delete them. Here's how to remove unneeded attachments with CleanMyMac X:

1. Download CleanMyMac here for free and launch the app.
2. Click the Mail Attachments tab.
3. Click Scan.
4. Select Outlook Attachments.
5. Click Clean to remove them all at once.

If you have plenty of free space on your Mac or in your email account, you may not need to delete attachments. But, like all temporary files, it’s good practice to get rid of them once you don’t need them anymore, or to make copies in easy-to-find folders, and delete the originals. Those originals are stored in a couple of different places, dependent on which version of Outlook you’re running. But the methods described above will allow you to identify the path to the folder that holds them so you can drag them to the Trash and get rid of them.

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